Friday, Mar. 08, 2002 I'm Not Rich Enough To Rip Off I cannot believe someone has tried to scam me! Sheesh, I've heard of similar tricks to this one, but I'll just run through the email I got today to let you all see how it works. I have censored some details: Bear in mind this was sent to the name 'Evil Edna Sixly'. Dear Sir, Edna quickly checks, nope, still female First I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. In other words, don't report us to our ISP... You have been recommended by an associate in the foreign office of the ******** Chambers of Commerce and Industry who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence. Ha! Who says I can't keep a secret? We are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are presently trapped in *******. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said trapped funds. The source of this fund is as follows: During the last Military Regime herein *******, the Military Government Officials set companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various Ministries. The present Democratic Government set up a Contract Review Panel and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of ******* ready for payment. However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. Damn, there's always a catch, isn't there? Thank God for the internet where you can always find complete suckers... I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US$21,500,000.00 (TWENTY ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S. DOLLARS) Hence we are writing you this letter. We have agreed to share the money thus: 1. 10% for the Account owner (you) 2. 80% for us (The officials) 3. 10% for all expenses that would be incurred during the course of this transaction. It is from the 80% that we wish to commence the importation business.Fuck me, I could tell student loans to go to hell.... Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest fourteen (14) banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information by E-mail: Your complete bank particulars including your bank account number, bank address,telephone and fax numbers and the beneficiary of the account only after you have spoken with me. The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to apply for payment and re-award the contract in your company's name. We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction. Pleaseacknowledge the receipt of this letter . I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.So, let's get this straight...I'm to give my bank details to a complete stranger? Uh, I don't think so.... Yours faithfull ******* *********Yeah, if that's a genuine name then I'm really called Evil Edna Sixly.... There's a couple of problems with their plan, not least the fact that if they did decide to raid my bank account they probably wouldn't recoup enough to cover the amount of telephone calls they had to make to access it. I'm a student who drives a cab at weekends to make ends meet. Still, I suppose someone might be stupid enough to fall for it. Just bad luck that I've already read about the previous internet scams which were running and which managed to relieve some very stupid people of their money. I'm going to print out a copy and leave it into my bank the next time I'm in - just to give them a laugh.
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